Category: Travel

New York Post Prints Vicious Hyperbole, Yawn

As Dorothy Parker once said of another’s writer’s work: “It was written without fear and without research.”

The story’s title read: VEGAS: 10 Strip restaurants to skip, and contained all the thoughtfulness you would expect from a newspaper prone to headlines like this:http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4048/nypkl8.jpg

The authors — David Landsel and Andy Wang — purport to tell tourists what famous eateries they should avoid in our humble burg. In no particular order, the authors toss rotten tomatoes at: Guy Savoy, Bouchon, Rao’s, all Wolfgang Puck restaurants, Picasso, Restaurant Charlie, Wazuzu, Beso, Tao, and anything and everything at Mandalay Bay(?).

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Georgia On My Mind

It is the interplay of black and white that makes Southern food distinctive, the interplay of Western European and West African and Native American traditions. – John T. Edge

Having just completed a week’s stay in northern Georgia (the Atlanta/Athens area) ELV thought he’d share a few tasty snaps of his three most worthwhile meals there. While the Deep South ain’t exactly at the top of the charts when it comes to adventuresome dining, the whole cotton-pickin’ kit-n-kaboodle is much closer to the agriculture that sustains it than we are in our humble burg, and from the down home (Weaver D’s) to cutting edge porcine perfection (Holeman & Finch Public House), the cooks know what they’re doing with the raw ingredients that surround them.

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Vegas Uncork’d Salmon Smackdown on The Early Show

It may be a bit early to be thinking about your plans for Mother’s Day 2010, but if you’re Brad Ogden, Paul Bartolotta or Rick “Fishboy” Moonen, Christmas time is the right time to promote their restaurants, their hotels, and Las Vegas’s biggest and best culinary event.

And there’s no better place to do so on the food-friendliest network (CBS) morning news show, where these uber-chefs got a full ten minutes to strut their (and Vegas’s) stuff (an eternity in TV time).

Harry Smith and his gang gave the nod to Moonen’s salmon with fennel with blood oranges, but we at ELV thought the schoolboy bickering (Ogden to Bartolotta: “You need help with that?” Bartolotta to Ogden (dripping with sarcasm): I’m sure (yours) will be okay…”) made the segment worth watching.

So bicker on boys!

It’s a lot more fun than watching Rachel Ray make a Velveeta cheese pie with Triscuit cracker crust.


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